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Radiofrontier: No Arrest Yet in Possible Anti-Semetic Attack

http://www.radiofrontier.ch/news/local-news/no-arrest-yet-in-possible-anti-semitic-attack-1038/


Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 06:30



Orthodox Jew stabbed 4 times in unprovoked attack in Geneva.

"Police in Geneva say they're still unsure whether the stabbing of an Orthodox Jew last week was an anti-semitic attack or not. The unprovoked attack happened on Thursday night in the car park of the Natural History Museum as the victim was putting a pushchair in his car boot – he was stabbed four times in front of his horrified family. Witnesses say that the attacker spoke in a foreign language which hasn't been identified and police say they don't have an accurate description of the attacker because it was dark. The anti-semitic organisation CICAD says that the case must be given the 'utmost attention' by police. The injured man is now out of intensive care but still in hospital."


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http://www.radiofrontier.ch/news/local-news/no-arrest-yet-in-possible-anti-semitic-attack-1038/


Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 06:30



Orthodox Jew stabbed 4 times in unprovoked attack in Geneva.

"Police in Geneva say they're still unsure whether the stabbing of an Orthodox Jew last week was an anti-semitic attack or not. The unprovoked attack happened on Thursday night in the car park of the Natural History Museum as the victim was putting a pushchair in his car boot – he was stabbed four times in front of his horrified family. Witnesses say that the attacker spoke in a foreign language which hasn't been identified and police say they don't have an accurate description of the attacker because it was dark. The anti-semitic organisation CICAD says that the case must be given the 'utmost attention' by police. The injured man is now out of intensive care but still in hospital."



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Re: Radiofrontier: No Arrest Yet in Possible Anti-Semetic Attack
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I wouldn't draw any conclusions about witnesses not recognizing the language. Eyewitnesses generally make all kinds of errors due to  the shock of witnessing a traumatic event as well as because of their own biases. 


After all, the attacker could have been speaking Romansh which is spoken mainly by native Swiss hailing from Graubunden/Grisons -- a national language which only less than 1% of Swiss speak.


That said, I posted the article because some Glocals members might not read the local Swiss French press. 


The Swiss have yet to find the perpetrators of the killing of a 70 year-old Zurich-based rabbi Abraham Grunbaum over a decade ago...


http://www.thelocal.de/national/20111212-39463.html

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I wouldn't draw any conclusions about witnesses not recognizing the language. Eyewitnesses generally make all kinds of errors due to  the shock of witnessing a traumatic event as well as because of their own biases. 


After all, the attacker could have been speaking Romansh which is spoken mainly by native Swiss hailing from Graubunden/Grisons -- a national language which only less than 1% of Swiss speak.


That said, I posted the article because some Glocals members might not read the local Swiss French press. 


The Swiss have yet to find the perpetrators of the killing of a 70 year-old Zurich-based rabbi Abraham Grunbaum over a decade ago...


http://www.thelocal.de/national/20111212-39463.html


Translator, Jan 4, 2012 @ 21:36
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